On: EPO and UKIPO Refuse AI-Invented Patent Applications

[bluesign]

"DABUS was developed by Dr. Stephen Thaler, who is named as the applicant on the patent documents."

Problem is AI cannot be the inventor, as inventor has to be natural person. This is no different than corporation cannot be the inventor. [1]

[1] https://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/18455/can-a-corp...

[TheOtherHobbes → bluesign]

This is going to be a huge problem for AI-generated art, music, and other media, because currently these are all public domain by default, for the same reason.

[Ididntdothis → TheOtherHobbes]

I think this would be an excellent outcome.

[im3w1l → TheOtherHobbes]

Public domain by default?! Shouldn't they AI count as just another tool? Someone ran the AI program. Someone took a look at its output and said "ah this looks sweet, let's apply for this one". These people are the tool users and should be classified as the inventors.

[bluesign → TheOtherHobbes]

Actually no, by default copyright is assigned to the user of the AI.

[lttlrck → TheOtherHobbes]

I think that would be a copyright issue though.